Saket Soni is founder and director of Resilience Force, the voice of the rising workforce rebuilding America after climate disasters. He is also the author of The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America. Mr. Soni is a recognized national expert on the intersection of climate, workforce, and racial justice issues. He was profiled as an “architect of the next labor movement” in USA Today, chosen as a 2022-23 Aspen Institute Fellow, and named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business for 2022. Mr. Soni’s work was the subject of a major New Yorker feature story in November 2021.
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Immigration Slavery in America
A True Story of Forced Labor and Liberation
Tuesday, February 06, 2024, 2pm
EST
Event Overview
This webinar features a discussion of author Saket Soni’s The Great Escape, which tells the astonishing true story of a group of immigrants trapped in the largest human trafficking scheme in modern American history. Weaving a deeply personal journey with a riveting tale of modern-day forced labor, The Great Escape — named a 2023 best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, and Amazon — takes us into the hidden lives of the foreign workers that America relies on to rebuild after climate disasters.
Join us for a dialogue with Saket Soni, a labor organizer and human rights strategist working at the intersection of racial justice, migrant rights, and climate change, and New Yorker staff writer Sarah Stillman. Cornell Law School professor Stephen Yale-Loehr moderates the discussion, in which our panel will put this tale of human slavery into the larger context of our broken immigration system.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
Saket Soni’s book The Great Escape
New York Times book review of The Great Escape
Sarah Stillman’s New Yorker article When Deportation is a Death Sentence
Sarah Stillman’s 2021 New Yorker article on The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate
Immigration Law Certificate Program
Join us for a dialogue with Saket Soni, a labor organizer and human rights strategist working at the intersection of racial justice, migrant rights, and climate change, and New Yorker staff writer Sarah Stillman. Cornell Law School professor Stephen Yale-Loehr moderates the discussion, in which our panel will put this tale of human slavery into the larger context of our broken immigration system.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
Saket Soni’s book The Great Escape
New York Times book review of The Great Escape
Sarah Stillman’s New Yorker article When Deportation is a Death Sentence
Sarah Stillman’s 2021 New Yorker article on The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate
Immigration Law Certificate Program
What You'll Learn
- A gripping tale of forced labor and liberation that NPR called “a true story that reads like a novel”
- What it takes for immigrant workers to make the promise of democracy real
- The origin of the immigrant workforce rebuilding after climate disasters
- How this story fits into larger immigration controversies
Speakers
Executive Director, Resilience Force
Staff writer, The New Yorker
Sarah Stillman is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she covers criminal justice, immigration, climate change, and more. She teaches investigative reporting at Yale University and is a MacArthur Fellow.
Ms. Stillman joined The New Yorker in 2012; that same year, her piece about labor abuses on United States military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, “The Invisible Army,” received the National Magazine Award for public interest and the Hillman Prize for magazine journalism. In 2019, she received another National Magazine Award for public interest, for her 2018 New Yorker piece, “No Refuge,” which documented how deportation can become a death sentence for asylum seekers and other immigrants.
A contributor to the best-selling anthology All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, Ms. Stillman is currently reporting on the ways that climate change, migration, and labor intersect. Her investigation into the labor abuses faced by migrant disaster-recovery workers — and their efforts to push back, amidst the accelerating climate crisis — won a 2022 George Polk Award, and her related New Yorker Radio Hour piece featuring Resilience Force won an Edward R. Murrow Award.
Stephen W. Yale-Loehr
Professor of Immigration Law Practice (Ret.)
Cornell Law School
Stephen Yale-Loehr is a retired immigration law professor at Cornell Law School and co-author of “Immigration Law and Procedure,” the leading 21-volume treatise on U.S. immigration law. Before he retired, Professor Yale-Loehr also taught immigration and asylum law at Cornell Law School and was of counsel at Miller Mayer in Ithaca, New York.
Saket Soni
Executive Director
Resilience Force
Executive Director, Resilience Force
Saket Soni is founder and director of Resilience Force, the voice of the rising workforce rebuilding America after climate disasters. He is also the author of The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America. Mr. Soni is a recognized national expert on the intersection of climate, workforce, and racial justice issues. He was profiled as an “architect of the next labor movement” in USA Today, chosen as a 2022-23 Aspen Institute Fellow, and named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business for 2022. Mr. Soni’s work was the subject of a major New Yorker feature story in November 2021.
Sarah Stillman
Staff writer
The New Yorker
Staff writer, The New Yorker
Sarah Stillman is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she covers criminal justice, immigration, climate change, and more. She teaches investigative reporting at Yale University and is a MacArthur Fellow.
Ms. Stillman joined The New Yorker in 2012; that same year, her piece about labor abuses on United States military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, “The Invisible Army,” received the National Magazine Award for public interest and the Hillman Prize for magazine journalism. In 2019, she received another National Magazine Award for public interest, for her 2018 New Yorker piece, “No Refuge,” which documented how deportation can become a death sentence for asylum seekers and other immigrants.
A contributor to the best-selling anthology All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, Ms. Stillman is currently reporting on the ways that climate change, migration, and labor intersect. Her investigation into the labor abuses faced by migrant disaster-recovery workers — and their efforts to push back, amidst the accelerating climate crisis — won a 2022 George Polk Award, and her related New Yorker Radio Hour piece featuring Resilience Force won an Edward R. Murrow Award.
Stephen W. Yale-Loehr
Professor of Immigration Law Practice (Ret.)
Cornell Law School
Stephen Yale-Loehr is a retired immigration law professor at Cornell Law School and co-author of “Immigration Law and Procedure,” the leading 21-volume treatise on U.S. immigration law. Before he retired, Professor Yale-Loehr also taught immigration and asylum law at Cornell Law School and was of counsel at Miller Mayer in Ithaca, New York.
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Join us for a dialogue with Saket Soni, a labor organizer and human rights strategist working at the intersection of racial justice, migrant rights, and climate change, and New Yorker staff writer Sarah Stillman. Cornell Law School professor Stephen Yale-Loehr moderates the discussion, in which our panel will put this tale of human slavery into the larger context of our broken immigration system.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
Saket Soni’s book The Great Escape
New York Times book review of The Great Escape
Sarah Stillman’s New Yorker article When Deportation is a Death Sentence
Sarah Stillman’s 2021 New Yorker article on The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate
Immigration Law Certificate Programhttps://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K020624/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
Join us for a dialogue with Saket Soni, a labor organizer and human rights strategist working at the intersection of racial justice, migrant rights, and climate change, and New Yorker staff writer Sarah Stillman. Cornell Law School professor Stephen Yale-Loehr moderates the discussion, in which our panel will put this tale of human slavery into the larger context of our broken immigration system.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
Saket Soni’s book The Great Escape
New York Times book review of The Great Escape
Sarah Stillman’s New Yorker article When Deportation is a Death Sentence
Sarah Stillman’s 2021 New Yorker article on The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate
Immigration Law Certificate Programhttps://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K020624/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
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